nounDate: 1866
a colorless toxic liquid compound C2H4Br2 that is used chiefly as a fuel additive in leaded gasolines, that has been found to be strongly carcinogenic in laboratory animals, and that was used formerly in the United States as an agricultural pesticide — abbreviation EDB

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